Please note: all the names entered in IPNI in 2018 have now been added to WCSP. The records for these names are still incomplete and all 4000 are currently being edited. All these newly added names are expected to be complete by April. Thanks for your understanding.

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WCSP is an international collaborative programme (view contributors)
that provides the latest peer reviewed (view reviewers)
and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families.
It allows you to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant, or the areas of the world in which it grows
(distribution).

The checklist includes 200 Seed Plant families (View list of included families). Different families are in different stages of review as indicated in the family list.
There are currently more than 155 contributors from 22 countries.